Episode description
Broadcast on July 15, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock
This week's show: Richard Loeb, AFGE Senior Policy Counselor, on why nearly 80% of federal and DC workers say they are more productive teleworking during the pandemic. Then, Allyson Brantley, author of the new book Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors & Remade American Consumer Activism on the historic Coors boycott, coalition building in the '60s & '70s and lessons for today’s organizers.
PLUS: Episode 2 of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s “Tales Of The Resistance, Volume 2: Persistence”: injustice and romance are in the air when an Asian American Antifa activist and a Black American activist drag queen are both thrown in a cell for resisting arrest. And when right-wing insurrectionists attack the jail to free their leader, political passion becomes a … JAILBREAK!
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.
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